US judge allows Trump administration to use Alien Enemies Act for deportations

However, Judge Haines criticized the federal government for practicing to deport individuals sometimes “within a matter of hours.” Haines, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, asked the officials to give at least 21 days notice before they could be deported in order to avoid the possibility that people who are not gang members “may be errantly removed from this country.”

The attorney representing ASR who is with the American Civil Liberties Union, Lee Gelernt, has said that he would appeal the decision of the Pennsylvania judge.

“We strongly disagree with the Court’s decision to allow the government to continue using this wartime authority during peacetime, and will appeal that aspect of the decision,” Gelernt said, Reuters reported.

Notably, the ruling by Haines is starkly opposite to other federal courts decisions’ interpretation of the Alien Enemies Act invoked by President Trump in March as federal judges in New York, Colorado and Texas have ruled against the Trump administration’s usage of the wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.

The Trump administration has deported alleged Venezuelan gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador for which the US government is paying $6 million to the Central American nation. The act of deportation is part of Donald Trump’s policy of immigration in his second tenure.